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“California Matters,” My New Web Series

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Here’s the first episode of “California Matters,” a 10-part webseries I developed with the Berkeley Food Institute. To do it, I ranged throughout the state, talking to people about issues in food, from labor rights to pesticide exposure, the history of Chinese-American cooking, ocean acidification, and more. This first one — in which I roam the streets of Oakland with Berkeley professors Tom Carlson and Philip Stark — is about urban foraging and wild edibles: weeds.

Food-wise (and otherwise), what happens in California affects everyone in America (get it? California Matters), so I’m excited to share the series, and looking forward to telling more of these stories. Here’s a conversation I had recently about how and why we made the series, plus a couplepodcasts for more info. Stay tuned, and click here to subscribe.

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It’ll be great to see Bittman’s always-interesting delivery, on the topic of food in California, and the influence it has across the country. I hope his reporting addresses the current hot issue of water distribution, as that impacts so much of what is teased here: history, pesticides, the ocean, and ability to forage.